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STORRS — They looked up at the video board, looked at each other and asked each other the same question. "Rebecca's like, 'It has been 20 years? That's crazy!'" Kara Wolters said. Outside Gampel Pavilion on Saturday an imperfect storm swept through eastern Connecticut. Snow and biting cold was punctuated by high-gust winds. Inside, as Rebecca Lobo pointed out, there was the celebration of the "perfect storm." As Lobo, Wolters and many of the members of the unbeaten 1995 national champions looked up at that video board, they heard President Bill Clinton during the first of what would become many, many trips to the White House. He talked...

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STORRS — They looked up at the video board, looked at each other and asked each other the same question.
"Rebecca's like, 'It has been 20 years? That's crazy!'" Kara Wolters said.
Outside Gampel Pavilion on Saturday an imperfect storm swept...

STORRS — Twenty years ago, Geno Auriemma spent Valentine's Day preparing for a game two days later at Pittsburgh, fresh off a win at Seton Hall that improved his talented team's record to 21-0.The game at Pitt would come exactly one month after UConn's...

Twenty years ago the UConn women's basketball team changed the state, and the game, forever, winning their first national title. Now they are favorites to win their 10th title under coach Geno Auriemma.
At halftime of the 4 p.m. game against Tulane...

Over the course of the season, The Courant will look back at the coaches and players who were a part of UConn's first national championship team 20 years ago (1994-95 season).After the end of her playing career at Virginia in 1991, and one winter in...

HARTFORD — Soon enough, the time will come for Geno Auriemma and his UConn program to refocus on its annual goal of winning another national championship. For instance, there is a flight to Memphis on Friday, a game there Saturday, a practice in Storrs on...

HARTFORD — On the day that the texture of the WNBA draft was changed by a trade, so might have been the list of players picked high in the first round.
Early Wednesday, the Connecticut Sun traded the third overall pick — and Renee Mongtomery — to the...

From her new office at the University of Kentucky, Tamika Williams was able to see the Wildcats volleyball team practice this season. That must have been therapeutic for someone who as a girl in Ohio played softball and volleyball before picking up a...

Geno Auriemma is not the only women's basketball coach to celebrate multiple championships over the past four years by shaking President Obama's hand.
Cheryl Reeve, coach of the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, has done it twice after winning the 2011 and 2013...

GREENVILLE, N.C. — There will be times when Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis is out of sync or in foul trouble. Sometimes it happens at the same time. And when it does, the greatest three-point shooter in UConn history will naturally fade into the background.
Of...

STORRS — A funny thing happened to Breanna Stewart on her way to winning four national championships and the final 125 games of her college career.
The other teams decided to beat her up.
They decided to get physical with college basketball's...

ESTERO, Fla. — Road trips for collegiate teams still follow the same script. Kids gather on planes and buses, practice floors and hotel rooms, discussing the things young people discuss. In the process, the hope is they learn stuff to help them cope...

ESTERO, Fla. -- Every game is a learning experience, for those who play and those who watch. In the aftermath of UConn's 89-53 win over Wisconsin-Green Bay in Saturday's Gulf Coast Showcase championship game, here's what we learned:
1....

ESTERO, Fla. – For nearly the first 15 minutes of Sunday's Gulf Coast Showcase championship game, UConn and Wisconsin-Green Bay were locked in the embrace boxers call a clinch.
The teams were in the middle of the ring, in this case the chilled floor of a...

The Arthritis Foundation, New England Region, hosted its first "Women On the Move" breakfast Wednesday morning at the Marriott Hotel in Hartford. UConn associate head coach Chris Dailey was the guest speaker.
Dailey addressed about 150...

Now that Alfonso Soriano says he will retire, it brings to mind when he burst onto the scene in New York with 18 home runs and 43 steals in 2001. That next year he just missed being a 40-40 player with 39 home runs and 41 stolen bases. He just could not...

HAMDEN — Even now, 41 years later, I can't fully explain why I did it. There it is on page 188 among the senior homeroom pictures in my high school yearbook.
The middle finger.
Best I can tell it's the only one among hundreds of photos in the...

The Central Connecticut women's soccer team won the Northeast Conference championship and is headed to the NCAA Tournament. It's been awhile, since 2008, but this situation is nothing new for coach Mick D'Arcy, who has won six conference championships...

STORRS — The confetti was still on heads and shoulders as Kevin Ollie and his players took the podium at AT&T Stadium.It was familiar, it was comfortable. And when someone tossed out the word, "improbable," Ollie corrected...

While the men's basketball team officially kicks off practice Saturday, the UConn women's team, two-time defending national champion and a winner of 46 straight, will wait until Oct. 15.
Coach Geno Auriemma has been away since the middle of September...

While the men’s basketball team prepares to officially kick off practice Saturday, the UConn women’s basketball team, two-time defending national champion and winners of 46 straight, will wait until Oct. 15 to begin.
Coach Geno...